Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

I've alway found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.